Lab Report

Title:

Phone Shield

Statement of the Problem:

What if we make it so when we charge a phone near a wall outlet people won’t step on it and won’t get dirty?
How can we make the back of the phone useful for people to use on an everyday basis?
When people charge their phone on a wall outlet it is usually placed on the floor. This makes the phone dirty because of the germs on the floor and the germs on shoes when/if they step on it. This can cause damage to your phone if someone steps on the screen.

Hypothesis:

If a phone is placed in the hammock while charging then, the phone will be less capable of getting stepped on while charging because, the elevated state of the phone will help it avoid any previously unavoidable hazards.

If the back of the phone case is capable of holding extra items then,everything important will be will you at all times and not get lost because, your phone is usually with you.

Procedure:

As we were finding ideas for our project we thought of a What if question. What if there was a way where we can safely charge our phone in wall outlets without your cord or phone on the floor? As we were thinking about the first question, we came to the conclusion about the back of the phones. We thought “What if we can utilize the back of the phone for different needs? This opened us up to a new market. Most people use your phone on everyday basis. There was a study at time.com that says that ages of 18 and 24 have an average of 74 checks per day. Ages of 25-34 look at their devices 50 times a day and those between 35 and 44 do so 35 times each day. We can help so many people if we utilize the back of the phone. You can use it for money, charger, earbuds, meds for the elderly, and for the phone hammock itself. The phone hammock is going to be made out of a antimicrobial cloth that can be used to clean your phone. Not a lot of people clean their phone so it is really useful because you’ll have the phone at all times. The phone hammock will be like a pocket so you can put your phone in safely so it does not fall out and break.

We built fake phones with the same weight as an average phone to hang for 48 hours in our phone hammock and recorded no damage or change of them. The phones were kept safe and charging.

The graph above shows us as a group of 14 participants we weighed and calculated the average of our phones. Taking the average of 207 grams we constructed fake phones made out of wood and weights. These phones were hung up in our phone hammocks all over our school for 48 hours and they were checked on every hour to note any changes. The phones remained safe and charging throughout the entire 48 hour period and resulted in no change at all.

There are pictures of this process of weighing our phones on the Design Process Tab of this website.

Conclusions:

Accept or reject your hypothesis.

Our hypothesis was proven correct when we tested the phone hammock in our school we found out that we are able to hang the phone at all heights able to be reached and the phone will not fall or get stepped on.

Include a summary of the data - averages, highest, lowest, etc., to help the reader understand your results. Try not to copy your data here, you should summarize and reference KEY information.

The Phone Hammock did not move at all during a 48 hour test in our school and the phone was 100% safe

68.8% of all surveyed people say they never, or very rarely clean their phone

94.1% of all surveyed people say they use a phone case

70% of all surveyed people say they forget important items in their daily life

45% of all surveyed people say they use a public outlet at least 2 times a week

28% of all surveyed people say they have had their phone stepped on before

66.2% of all surveyed people say they have placed their phone on a dirty surface while charging

76.5% of all surveyed people say they have dropped their phone and damaged it

54.5% of all surveyed people say they sometimes misplace or forget their charger

List one thing you learned and describe how it applies to a real-life situation.

The one thing that we learned is that by doing these tests and surveys we can agree that people do need our product and our product can be efficient in their daily lives. This applies to real life because if there is a product that you want to make or sell you have to see if people really are going to need their product in their daily lives.

Discuss possible errors that could have occurred in the collection of the data (experimental errors).

Possible errors that could have occurred was people not reading the questions clearly. They could also have just wanted to get the survey done and rushed it. The data is really important because we need the data to see if our product would really be beneficial in our everyday lives.

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